Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-20
LITTLE GIRLS OF TIE PERIOD.
WAIST they Have to Say Lhoat FaaAiou
and Society,

WAIST they Have to Say Ihoat FaaAiou
and Society.
Puck
Isabel leed tene-Oh, wa Edith: We
are gOin 20 the park, too,
Edith aged the same)-Hg Y, then!
Marie - is 30 nasty. She keeps say ag: "ne-
PEE IeE-vOus, Gepecheg-vCus!"
Tsahel-Oh, never mind her. I dom
bother with Mathilde. Mamma slrl I
needn't i l only speak French with Der.
EaIth-Yes, I know. Mamma SAYS it
is necessary to get the accent I wonder
Why?
~Isabel-Oh, because Wen grow up BY
ard-by. and come out, you know, and then
W. lrs in society.
EdIth-Sister May is cut now, and sOes
to parties every might, and gets bOuqueta.
T .bel-SO does my Cousin Eleanor, and
10 Of them men come to zee her; and l
heard ADnt Kate say they wsre "detri-
mentals 20, every one of them
Eiith-W ell, mamma told papa nc boAk.
ia this mCrning that at the tall last night
Sister May had plenty OF partners, md
there wasn't an eligible among theIl.
Mustn't bat be nice:
Isabel-Nhat?
Eiith-To AVE all the ''eliEhieE cut
of 5ne way. | suppose they are 2at At Al
nice.
Isabel-Tes; like that Harry Graham ut
dancing school that mamma says | nllstl,t
dance with for bis family doesn't beloog
TO our set.
Edith-N III, / don't care; he rances
better than Jack Smith.
IsIbel-Oh, but you know, Edith, jacks
papa has get lots and lots OF money-trI-
ions, l guess; and they live in 8 lovely
house on Madison avenue.
Eiith-Well, Jack can't dance as veil
As Harry.
Isabel-But it really isn't proper to lance
with Harry; mamma says 50. Don you
van to be proper?
Edith don't know.
I$lbel-Beaides, they don't keep a car
riage-and perhaps his ann isn't A lady,
you know.
Edith know how we can tell.
Isabel-How?
Edith-Weu ask Harry if she's got 4
camel's hair shawl; because mamma says
that no real lady can be without one.
Isabel-My mamma has two.
Eiith-So has mine; so they are surely
real ladies aren't they?
Isabel-Oh, my. yes. youk now; b2Cause
va have 4 box at the opera, too.
Edith-SO have We; and Isabel, they're
not real boxes with covers, you know, hut
nice little places where the best people sit
mamma says 20.
Tsabel-Yes, and they're up high; and |
asked mamma if that was TO see better,
and papa said: NO. 10 be seen better,
and mamma laughed and said something
IN French, and l cant understand miami
mas French. 1t isn'tat all like Mathilde's.
Edith-Why Of course not. Mathilde
is only 4 servant, You know. Your nam
ma wouldn't talk like a servant.
Isabel-Oh, no, indeed; for the other
day she and Aunt Kate were laughing
about Mrs. Brown, and mamma said: She
talks like her servant, with her ma ANS
and sirs:' and then they both laughed,
md Aunt Kate said she was awfully com
mon.
Elith-There's Grace Wilmot. Let . 90
play with her.
Isabel-Oh, no, I wouldn't. Her on
net isn't French.
Edith-Well, she goes TO our church
Isabel-Yes; but they don't sit in the
middle aisle.
EdIth-That's so, for mamma told ; ster
May the Willmots would never get into
society through coming into our church,
for ttey were out of the middle aisle.
Isabel don't suppose the other people
will 20 70 heaven at all, DO you?
Edith don't knOw-but the minister
only breaches to Us in the middle aisle, Tor
I've watched hin. lots of times. Isn't our
rector Just lovely:
Isabe!-Yes. he eats dinner with us
nearly every sunday.
EdIth-Well, he comes 20 Uur hOusa for
; n'clock tea, lots of sundays, too.
ISabel-Brnther Tom he's an aE-
fuI cad What do you suppose nat
means
Edith don't know.
Isabel asked Mathilde, and she Hint
know.
Edith-Perhaps it means be has to eat a
good deal, because he does, you know
lsabel-Yes; | heard papa say he hank.
cred after the fesh-pots' and asked him
what that meant. and he said that Mr..
Ritual liked snlid and terrapln.
Edith-Oh. Marie is calling me? I've
got TO 20.
isabel -GOOd-bv; cone out tomorrow.
Edith-Yes: mamma says she likes me
to play with you, and that Marie and Ma
thilde look ~ nice together.
Isabel suppose because they are 10th
French.
Edith-Oh, no; because the both. wear
real lace on their caps. She told Sister
May 80. GoOd-by.